Static. Then a dispatcher. “Hold one second, sir.” More static.
Then a toddler’s voice.
“Mama boo boo,” it said. “Boo boo.”
The dispatcher is back, asking, “Is the person conscious?”
“No,” Daniel Roberts said. “No.”
The toddler’s voice on the 911 tape appears to belong to Savanna Marie Roberts. The 2-year-old girl was at her father’s home the night he shot her mother, Melissa Mendoza, in the back of the head. He said it was self-defense. A jury last week convicted him of murder.
The shot had woken the little girl, Daniel Roberts had said. He phoned his father who lived up the road to come and take Savanna away from the scene of the shooting.